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Posted by Andrew Branca on June 19, 2013 30 Comments
Today was the first day of general voir dire of the prospective jurors, now numbering 40.  (Click here for a compilation of our notes on all 40 prospective jurors.)  The prospective jurors were to be questioned en masse, which required some reorganization of the courtroom....

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 19, 2013 12 Comments
By now you’ve probably seen Professor Jacobson’s welcome message about my arrival to Legal Insurrection.  I’m excited to be here, as I’ve always regarded this site as a place to come for thoughtful analyses on the news of the day, and original articles that delve...

Posted by Andrew Branca on June 17, 2013 14 Comments
BREAKING:  At close of tonight’s Frye hearing, the State announced they intend to re-call Tom Owens for additional testimony.  The Court scheduled this for 4Pm on Wednesday.   The Zimmerman Court has re-convened the Frye suspended before jury selection.  The purpose of the Frye hearing...

Posted by Andrew Branca on June 06, 2013 23 Comments
The Zimmerman court is engaged in a pretrial Frye hearing that will decide, in part, whether the prosecution’s expert witnesses can testify about their analysis of an audio recording of the 911 call made by Witness #11, which ended up accidentally capturing the last moments...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 04, 2013 7 Comments
Day two in the military trial of Bradley Manning continued today. While much of the day’s events are reported to have focused on chain-of-custody issues and other evidentiary matters, one notable highlight was the testimony of the man who first alerted authorities to the extensive...

Posted by David Gerstman on May 31, 2013 14 Comments
In October 2009, Charles Krauthammer critiqued President Obama’s foreign policy in a Weekly Standard article Decline is a choice: Indeed, as he made his hajj from Strasbourg to Prague to Ankara to Istanbul to Cairo and finally to the U.N. General Assembly, Obama drew the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 29, 2013 12 Comments
This obviously is someone having some fun at MoveOn.org’s expense, but it’s still pretty good because it’s plausible. As of this writing they have 93 of the 100 signatures they are seaking (h/t @KredoO): The text of the petition reads: Petition Statement Dear Hunger Strikers, We understand...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2013 23 Comments
Lois Lerner famously purported to invoke the 5th Amendment privilege against self-incrimination yesterday while appearing before Congress. A number of people have reached out to me to ask me to write about it.  Unfortunately, it’s outside my area of experience and I don’t have time...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2013 11 Comments
At congressional hearings today, it was revealed that IRS planted question at ABA mtg disclosing targeting of conservatives via communications between Celia Roady, a tax lawyer who asked the question, and Lois Lerner of the IRS who was on an ABA panel.  Roady has a deep...

Posted by David Gerstman on May 08, 2013 17 Comments
Hearings are scheduled today before Darrell Issa’s committee. I thought that Roger L. Simon was going a bit overboard late last week. New RLS blog #TCOT Benghazi Impeachment Suddenly Not So Far-Fetched bit.ly/15d5RXW — Roger Simon (@rogerlsimon) May 4, 2013 Even Simon acknowledged that his...

Posted by David Gerstman on April 24, 2013 2 Comments
1) Friedman resurrects “Fayyadism” Some time ago, Thomas Friedman coined the term “Fayyadism,” a concept that, according to Nathan Brown, never had a chance. Why Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad never had a chance to meet the high expectations placed on him http://t.co/veLJpvVyU0 — Foreign...
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